The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01
KIDNAPPING A PRINCESS.
How a Well-Know Midget was Alb
Quoted by Her Own Father

From the Chicago Herald.
| A handsome cab went westward on Madi-
son street at breakneck speed shortly be
fore 8 O'Clock last night. In full pur-
suit were hundred or more excited and
peispiring men and women yelling Police
| and "Stop them at the top of their voices.
| From the interior OF the vehicle the screams
! of child, varied with the cries of Police
man, help me-" Hell murder me-" could
| be heard a block away. As the cries be-
came more pitiful III tone and the shouts of
| the pursuers increased in volume the cab
man stood up in his seat and merciieSsly
| dashed the almost exhausted beast. Officer
! McQuade, of the Harrison street detail, was
standing on the viaduct as the vehicle ap-
| preached, and. hearing the cries, shouted to
| the cabman to pull up At the same mo-
mcnt he sprang into the roadway and seized
| the reinS, but the driver made no effort to
| check the speed, and after being dragged
several yards at imminent danger to limb,
| if not to life the officer was compelled to
| loosen his hold. The cabman turned south
on Canal street toward the Union depot,
| but here block of vehicles compelled him
| to lessen his speed, and McQuado, who had
been following close behind, was enabled to
again catch the lines, and this time to bring
ments later the vehicle was returning to the
South Side at a more leisurely pace, with
the crowd, which met on the bridge, still in
pursuit.
This exciting scene was the sequel to a
sensational episode which had occurred in
the centre of the city quarter of an hour
before. Little Ida Mcintyre, better known
as the Princess Ida, the l6-year-old 2G-inch
| midget. who appeared at the South and
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has. with her mother, been stopping tempo
rarlly with Mrs. Engle, at Isl East Wash
ingt0n street. Their permanent home is in
Kenosha, Wis, where they reside with the
parents Of Mrs Mcintyre, who has been
Separated from her husband for some time.
About $50 princess Ida" was sitting on the
steps of Isl talking with l2-year-old Ida
Engle, when a slim, neatly dressed man,
with "A straw hat pulled well down over his
forehead, crossed the street with hurried
staps. and without a word seized the midget
i'm his arms and started on the run toward
LaSalle street For moment both of the
girls were deprived of the power of utter
ance The midget was the first to recover
her lung power, and she commenced to
scream Mt the top of her voice, while the
Fngle girl. who was following close behind,
ioined in the chorus At La Sale and
Madison streets the man. who was In reality
the midgetS father, jumped lnuO II naLSOul
which had evidently been in waiting and
ordered the driver to hurry to the Union
depot Bv this time crowd of some fifty
people had been attacted by the cries, and,
headed by the almost hysterical Engle girl,
thpy cave chase to the vehicle, which turned
west ON Madison, at the same time bowling
70 the cabman to stop. BY the time Fifth
avenue was reached the crowd had doubled
and cries of Lynch him." induced the cab
man TO pull nip short. A west-bound street
tor was standing at the corner, and while
the crowd was upon the pavement the man,
with the child in his arms, sprang out on
tbo other side and took seat ON the plat
form i'm fhc rear of the driver. The crowd,
however, discovered his stratagem in the
twinkjinp of an eye, and in less time than it
takes 10 tell the story a couple OF staIwart
men had carried him bodily off the car and
deposited him on the sidewalk Here NC
Intyre and his fragile burden were quickly
surrounded and shouts of Police" were
raised. Now a blue coat responded, how
ever. and Mcintyre in plausible way pro
ceeded To explain 10 the throng that lac was
merely taking home his lost daughter. This
caused something of n reaction IN ms favor,
mud ms Ida. who was completely exhausted
mnde no remonstrance, the impromptu jury
decided not without a goodly chorus OF
ssNoos" TO allow him TO go his way. But no
snoner had he entered the cab than Princess
Tdn recommended her shrieks and the
crowd its chase. The result has already been
told